Pineapple Citrus Energy Freeze

What Taco Bell says it is

Taco Bell’s own description on the ordering menu: “A sweet pineapple flavored frozen slushy drink mixed with tropical citrus flavors featuring Taco Bell Energy, charged with B vitamins with added caffeine for a boost of energy. Pineapple Citrus Energy Freeze contains caffeine, 120 mg per 16oz or 20oz drink. For adult use only. Not recommended for children, pregnant or nursing women or persons sensitive to caffeine. Do not consume in combination with caffeine or stimulants from other sources.” That description states caffeine at 120 mg per 16 oz or 20 oz; the nutrition record carries no caffeine figure for it, so the description is the only figure the brand publishes.

The two calorie figures

Pineapple Citrus Energy Freeze reads zero calories on the ordering menu. That zero is not a figure: the size is chosen on the product page, so the category listing has nothing to count until it is. The nutrition menu carries two records for it, 16 oz at 150 calories and 20 oz at 190 calories.

This page treats the zero as what it is and prints the record for the first size instead; every ranking on the site does the same.

Where it was listed

On 19 September 2026, Pineapple Citrus Energy Freeze was listed at 378 of the 452 restaurants read, in 50 states and DC. That makes it on most of the menus read, but not all of them.

the District of Columbia had the lowest state median, $3.79; Alaska the highest, $5.79. A state median stands on ten restaurants at most, so a single expensive or cheap restaurant moves it; the national range is the safer figure. Pick a state on the board or on the prices by state page and the ticket on every page prices its lines at that state’s medians beside the national range.

What the price buys

By median price Pineapple Citrus Energy Freeze ranks 7th of 8 in Freezes. The section median is $4.19, so it is $0.10 above it. At the median price it costs $2.86 per 100 calories.

Taco Bell’s Happier Hour page says: “Get any Regular Freeze or Medium Fountain Drink for just $1 during Happier Hour, every day from 2 to 5 PM at participating locations.” That window is a time-of-day price, not the list price, and it is stated by the brand rather than read from a menu, so it sits in this sentence and not in the range above.

The record against a day

One Pineapple Citrus Energy Freeze is 8 percent of a 2,000 calorie day by calories and 2 percent of the 2,300 mg sodium limit the FDA uses for the daily value. Sugars are 38 g, of which 38 g are added. The record carries no caffeine figure; the ordering menu’s description states 120 mg per 16 oz or 20 oz.

The Freezes median for sodium is 48 mg; this one is 55.

Allergens and certification

Taco Bell’s allergen tool marks Pineapple Citrus Energy Freeze free of eggs, fish, gluten, milk, MSG, peanuts, sesame, shellfish, soy, tree nuts and wheat. Its record carries no allergen table, so there is no warning to print. The tool’s own caution: “While a particular ingredient may not contain one of these allergens, our products may be prepared on the same equipment and in the same kitchen area as those that do.” Gluten is the special case: “Taco Bell does not claim “gluten-free” for any ingredients or menu items.” A free mark for gluten here is the tool’s word about ingredients, never a claim by this site.

Fruitworks Energy Syrup stops it being vegetarian as served: Fruitworks Energy Syrup carries no vegetarian tag in the statement.

Ways to change it

Size prices were read at five restaurants for this page: Regular $3.69 to $4.49 and Large $3.89 to $4.99. The line’s own range above stands on 378.

The option calories are the ordering menu’s own figures for the option, printed as it prints them; a swapped build is not a nutrition record, so the panel on this page stays the item as published. Option prices were read at five of the restaurants and are printed with that count, never as a national figure.

Next to it on the board

Next to it on the board: Dragonfruit Freeze has 10 calories more; Mtn Dew Baja Blast Freeze has the same calories and $0.30 less at the median; Pineapple Freeze has 10 calories more and $0.10 less at the median.

Guides and comparisons that mention it

• What drinks are a dollar at Happier Hour?
• Taco Bell Happier Hour: the window, the $1 drinks and Freeze prices
• Caffeine: what is published and what is not